Official video for Jamala’s Eurovision 2016 winning song was shot in Carpathians

Ukrainian singer Jamala presented her new video for the song 1944, that won this year Eurovision contest. The video was published on the singer’s YouTube channel.

The shooting lasted three days. The scene was on the former military base Pamir, located on the Tomnatik Mountain in Bukovyna, Western Ukraine on the altitude of 1565 m.

The song tells about the tragedy of the Crimean Tatars and the singer’s family, who suffered from the forcible deportation from the Peninsula in 1944. The story of Jamala’s grandmother inspired the singer to write the song.